Are there any restrictions on 'mentor groups'? For instance, could we
create a 'mentors' mailing list, closed subscriptions, that contained
those willing to actively mentor, so that those being mentor'd have
multiple ppl's knowledge's to feed upon?
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> My participation would be limited to the actual number of newcomers. I feel
> comfortable helping 2 or 3 people; any more than that would impact my clients
> and consulting time. Although, it would never hurt to have additional
> mentors :).
>
>
> Robert Treat wrote:
>
>> We have a whole TODO list of potential items for people to work on, and we
>> have several member of this list that work for universities in some
>> capacity, so istm we ought to give it a shot. I would think this is
>> something that the foundation would be good to be involved in as well, as
>> it would certainly help it all appear official. We just need to tie up the
>> loose ends on who would be available to do the mentoring, which might need
>> to be different people depending on the work involved, unless you think you
>> could handle all comers Jonah?
>> Robert Treat
>>
>> On Wednesday 01 June 2005 10:53, Jonah H. Harris wrote:
>>
>>> Marc,
>>>
>>> If you wanted to submit PostgreSQL to Google for this, I'd be willing to
>>> work with any potentials. Should someone choose to work on PostgreSQL
>>> projects, the money can go to the group.
>>>
>>> If anyone sees a problem with submitting under the PostgreSQL Global
>>> Development Group, I can do it under my company.
>>>
>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>>> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>>
>>>> In case nobody has seen this:
>>>>
>>>> http://code.google.com/summerofcode.html
>>>>
>>>> Might be something to help fun, say, the GiST stuff? Just need to
>>>> find a student that could be mentor'd/directed/brought up to speed?
>>>>
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